Monthly Archives: January 2009

Reaching the Next Level

By Alex Schearer | January 27th, 2009
This article is for all the aspiring developers such as myself who want to pull themselves up from the bottom and make truly great games; I recently checked a book out from the library that I’d like to recommend. It’s called Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin. The premise is simple, what separates world-class achievers [...]

Pacifism in Games

By Alex Schearer | January 25th, 2009
After reading a few thoughts about fighting in games a question occurred to me. What would a game look like if it weighed fighting and sparing life equally? On the one hand you have games such as Gears of War wherein fighting to the death takes center stage. On the other hand, you have games [...]

Why Go Multiplatform?

By Alex Schearer | January 17th, 2009
The people over at Wolfire games wrote an article about their experiences selling a multiplatform game and why it’s important to target multiplatforms. I couldn’t agree more, failing to support mac and linux users is a big mistake which will cost you in lost sales and marketing. As a mac user here are some of [...]

Slick GUI with Sticky Buttons

By Alex Schearer | January 14th, 2009
With work on Shade finally slowing down I’ve had time to work on some other things. Some of them are sort of neat so I thought I’d share them. Today I’m going to share a simple GUI library for making buttons. You can get away with a lot with some nice looking buttons and background [...]

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